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Formative Assessment Learning Tasks. This site is the beginning of the Gates Mathematics Collaborative work in KY (Math FALs). 

From the site, "Research and revise a wide variety of school subjects as Videojug presents tips and tutorials for a range of subjects across the school-board. Learn or re-learn English, Maths, Science , Modern and Traditional Foreign Languages, Sign Language, Politics, History and Geography. Between brain-teasers and fun experiments theres something for scholars old and new." Interesting take on organizing some of the many videos available on the internet. 

Great common core math tools site from Bill McCallum's work in Arizona for PARCC

In keeping with the natural math movement, inclusion, and hands-on Maria Droujkova does her usual thorough job of developing a wonderful learning event/opportunity.  I encourage you to check out the discussions and add your perspective to the mix. 

Interesting article from Britain regarding computational fluency. I don't disagree that being fluent with computation increases a students future capabilities, but there is not necessarily causal effect that 'traditional' approaches to teaching computation make stronger mathematics students. It's the rigorous approach that I think needs to be emphasized. 

Chris Harbeck's class blog from this last year. A great practitioner and great example of utilizing a blog for instructional purposes.

Great connections between math and "real world" settings. Well developed use of multiple representations. 

Math applets from Edinformatics. 

The NRICH Project aims to enrich the mathematical experiences of all learners. To support this aim, members of the NRICH team work in a wide range of capacities, including providing professional development for teachers wishing to embed rich mathematical tasks into everyday classroom practice. More information on many of our other activities can be found here. On our website you will find thousands of our free mathematics enrichment materials (problems, articles and games) for teachers and learners from ages 5 to 19 years. All the resources are designed to develop subject knowledge, problem-solving and mathematical thinking skills. The website is updated with new material on the first day of every month. For guidance on how to find the right resources for you, go to the Help section of the site.

WorldWide Telescope is Microsoft's answer to Google Earth and Google Sky. It's pretty cool and does a lot of stuff that I don't understand but am sure someone interested in astronomy would love. I look at it and think about using the zooms of planets to have student calculate the size of some features knowing the scale. It's not utilizing the total power of the software, but it gets me in the door, makes it a cool activity for the students, and creates a little love to science in a math class. i can live with that!

Great data and science site. I like the nice real world connections for the data. Also, great science site. Science content using interactivity and data (gotta get math involved).

Online games. I played a couple of the math games.Again primarily drill and practice but it pits you against an opponent so +s and -s.

Simple article, but very nice examples of podcasting routines that would add value to classroom instruction.  Podcasting takes some time to develop but offer students opportunities to listen to materials multiple times, when they want/need to hear it again. 

Some flash based games that students can play to hone their computation/number sense skills

Statistics that lie! This is a great example of data that isn't reported correctly. The article decries the death of Netbooks, when in fact it is more about a stabalization of sales. I encourage math teachers to let students read the article and at least the first two responses. It's a great example of blatant misinformation.